[kplato] MS Project XML Import

[Tom Weichmann]

I am (of course) forced to use MS Windows at the office and was exposed to MS 
Project there.  I started a small improvement project on an apartment 
building my Mom owns.  I taught myself MS Project using that project as an 
example, but kept having to use time after work to work on it.  I then looked 
for Linux alternatives for use at home and came across Gnome Project and 
Kplato.

Gnome project offers an import of MS Project XML so I looked for a way to save 
this from my Project 2000 at work.  This does not exist, but my theory is 
that it is offered in Office XP.

I then looked for a project file viewer for Linux and there is one that is 
free to try called Steelray (http://www.steelray.com) that lets you view 
MS .mpp files and also export into MS XML.

I imported this into Gnome Project, but that program is not very useable for 
me (keeps crashing) and I also like KDE apps better anyway.

I have attached my .mpp file (incase you have MS Project) as well as my .xml 
file that I exported from Steelray.  I would suspect that it is the same as 
what would come out of MS Office.

I probably do not have the programming skills to do this, but I just wanted to 
let you know that it is out there.



Thanks,

Tom Weichmann

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 08:44, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Wednesday 6 September 2006 13:33, Tom Weichmann wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Just wondering if there are plans to include the importing of MS
> > Project XML files?
>
> Hi,
>
> The infrastructure for this is available and if someone is willing to
> spent the time to write such a converter it can be integrated in the
> project for upcoming releases.
> At this time I do think its not on the radar at all.
>
> I'm also not aware of the MSProject fileformat being documented. You say
> they are XML? Are you sure? Is there documentation available for the
> fileformat?
> It would surprise me, as thats not really in character of MS :)
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